S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report

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Zine
Title: S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report
Publisher: S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control, a fan club
Editor(s):
Type: newsletter
Date(s): October 1973 to 1979
Frequency: monthly
Medium: print, then online
Fandom: UFO
External Links: first issue plus club description
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S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report is a UFO monthly 2-page newsletter with at least 49 issues.

This is a sister zine to SHADO Handbook.

Two Clubs

There were two early U.F.O. fan clubs: SHADO-USECC (United States East Coast Control) (began in 1979) and SHADO-USCC (United States Central Control) (began in 1973).

Fan Comments

A fan in 2001 commented:

>I got the newsletter this week also. While not a longtime member of the club, I had no real intention of resubscribing next year, as it seems that most of what is in the newsletter comes from your site or this list.

Yes, that's true. In the "old days" (before my UFO website existed), the articles I wrote in the SHADO-USECC newsletter were unique. These days, there's a lot of duplication between what's on the Internet and what's in the newsletter. Also unfortunately, with my limited time, my website suffers because of all the time I spend on the newsletter. In fact, in the past year, I think I've spent more time on the newsletter than on my website! [1]

In 2003, a fan commented about the online posting of the newsletters:

Thanks for posting all these SHADO-USCC newsletters, Bill! I've got a bunch of these as well (although I wasn't a member at the time), and when I first got them I was rather surprised that the content seemed to be 90% club administration details, with only about 10% "real" content. I think the subsquent UFO fan clubs did a better job with content (e.g., the ones with the "Interceptor" newsletters, and also SHADO-USECC did a pretty good job at this during Helen Weber's term of being in charge) -- Marc [2]

Issue 1

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 1 was published in October 1973. It is four pages long.

first page of the first issue

OCTOBER 1973

Welcome to the membership of SHADO U S Central Control. This is the first of the Status Reports you will be receiving monthly. Cmd. Straker sends his best regards to all new members and hopes that you will all enjoy being a part of SHADO. This is your club and we, your officers, want you to participate in its running and have fun with it. We are here to help; any suggestions or criticisms are welcome as we want to do as good a job as possible, and we need your help to do so. If you have friends who also watch UFO, get together with them and form your own Control base. If you wish, you can submit details of your organization to us and we will pass the information on to the other fans via this report.

We also want to publish reports on actual UFO sightings. If you see one, get all the details you can---size, distance from you, speed, direction and send it to us, If you can, make a simple sketch of the UFO, as there are a number of different types, and SHADO scientists believe each has a different function in the alien scheme of conquest. We would also like all of you to collect any newspaper or magazine articles that are printed on UFOs. These will become part of a permanent reference collection kept by SHADO - USCC.

Contributions of fiction---short stories, anagrams, jokes, etc. dealing with UFO and SHADO will be gratefully accepted. Be sure to keep copies of all printed work. Never send your only copy of anything through the mail, as it is not known for its efficiency. As to artwork, we would like drawings of all the stars, and, if any of you are so inclined, we will accept technical drawings of SHADO equipment and vehicles. Cartoons, too. But be warned! The Commander likes to keep pictures done of himself. So if you want your work returned after we have copied it, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope and instructions to that effect. We will print as much as we can, but budget and editorial policy will be factors. Don't be disappointed if your work is not printed right away. Be patient. We will get to it as soon as possible.

Membership cards will be sent to everyone as soon as SHADAIR MAIL can get them here. The Commander is signing each one himself, and that takes time. But everyone should get one with the next Status Report.

Looking forward to your continued participation;

DALE E. JONES Colonel, Internal Security

SHADO, U. S. Central Control [3]

Issue 2

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 2 was published in November 1973. It is 3 pages long.

Issue 3

Issue 4

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 4 was published in January 1974. It is 3 pages long.

Issue 5

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 5 was published in February 1974. It is 3 pages long.

Issue 6

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 6 was published in March 1974. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 7

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 7 was published in April 1974. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 8

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 8 was published in May 1974. It is 2 pages long and has a note from "Col. Felix Travelyn".

Issue 9

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 9 was published in June/July 1974. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 10

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 10 was published in August 1974. It is 3 pages long.

Issue 11

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 11 was published in September 1974. It is 3 pages long.

Issue 12

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 12 published in October 1974. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 13

Issue 14

Issue 15

Issue 16

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 16 was published in January 1975. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 17

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 17 was published in February 1975. It is 3 pages long.

Issue 18

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 18 was published in March 1975. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 19

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 19 was published in April 1975. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 20

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 20 was published in May/June 1975. It is 5 pages long.

Issue 21

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 21 was published in July 1975. It is 3 pages long.

Issue 22

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 22 was published in August 1975. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 23

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 23 was published in September 1975. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 24

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 24 was published in October 1975. It is 3 pages long.

front page of issue #24

Issue 25

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 25 was published in November 1975. It is 3 pages long.

Issue 26

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 26 was published in December 1975. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 27

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 27 was published in January 1976. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 28

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 28 was published in February 1976. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 29

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 29 was published in published April 176. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 30

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 30 was published in published May/June 1976. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 31

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 31 was published in published July 1976. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 32

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 32 was published in published September 1976. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 33

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 33 was published in October 1976. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 34

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 34 was published in December 1976. It is 2 pages long.

Issue 35

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 35 was published in 1977.

Issue 36

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 36 was published in 1977.

Issue 37

S.H.A.D.O. United States Central Control Monthly Status Report 37 was published in published March 1977. It is 2 pages long.

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